Since then, I'm using Joplin and while I miss the look of my custom doku wiki, Joplin is easier to maintain and I can write faster in it. Unfortunately, in the end I gave up on it because I spend too much time fiddling with settings, setting up pages and organizing stuff. I used dokuwiki and I greatly enjoyed it, because I was able to customize it to my liking. There are afterwards tools that generate essentially a mind map from your page links. This means create a page with content, and use links to connect pages together. Either way, having a mind map on a paper is more useful than a digital mind map.Īlternatively, you could use either a wiki or a software with subject linking. A mind map is supposed to reflect the way you think so you can get a better overview of a subject or use it as a memorization tool. This is just a subjective opinion, but I think that any actual mind mapping software has a short coming of well. So maybe expand your search for diagram software too. I'm not really sure, but I think draw.io is actually foss. I was using draw.io in the past for some university projects and you can make mind maps in that too, there are even mind map presets in there. You can do it in pretty much any diagram software.

If you really want to make mind maps, you don't necessarily need a mind mapping software. I can't really give you a name for another mind mapping software (at least not a definitive answer), but maybe I could nudge you in a different direction.

Open source mind mapping software